skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If H1B immigrants generates more tax revenue and contribute more on average than locals, largely because of gems like Sundar Pichai that couldn't make the bureaucratic credentialist hurdle of the O1, then what's the problem? It should be expanded and reformed, not contracted and reformed. If you're concerned about degree mills then reform that aspect while expanding the net intake.
1) Push for regulations around data provenance. If you train on anything, you have to prove that you had the rights to train on it. This would kill all but the largest providers in the USA, though China would still pose a problem. You could work around that bit by making businesses and consumers liable for usage of models that don't have proof of provenance.

2) If you had some secret algorithm that substantially outperformed everyone, you could win if you prevented leakage. This runs into the issue that two people can keep a secret, but three cannot. Eventually it'll leak.

3) Keep costs exceptionally low, sell at cost (or for free), and flood the market with that, which you use to enhance other revenue streams and make it unprofitable for other companies to compete and unappealing as a target for investors. To do this, you have to be a large company with existing revenue streams, highly efficient infrastructure, piles of money to burn while competitors burn through their smaller piles of money, and the ability to get something of value from giving something out for free.
priced it to hopefully be a sustainable business to recover the engineering costs

Yeah, that's the part that doesn't work. You have to eat losses on (at least) the first generation to succeed.
> There were hundreds of well-funded efforts to build online retailers before Amazon happened

Maybe hundreds. Maybe not. We (the initial amzn team of bezos, myself and shel kaphan) were certainly not looking at any others that I recall besides bookstacks who had a telnet-based online bookstore.

I think people overlook the role of luck here. Bezos was simultaneously very smart but also incredibly lucky to be "the guy who was doing books on the web". It really was the ideal product for the first large scale online retail, and Bezos brought a lot of imagination and energy to the effort. But if it had not have been him, it would have been someone else, who likely would have been more or less as successful.

Personally, I think that Bezos' relentless focus on customer service was the biggest factor in amzn's early success, combined with his near-insane quality standards for the people he was willing to hire.
I think it's the flexible middle-ground that REST APIs and GraphQL APIs converge on. GraphQL APIs that are completely open are trivially DOS'd with recursive data loops or deeply nested over-fetching requests and hence need to be restricted down to acceptable shapes -- thus converging on essentially the same solution from the opposite direction when constructing a GraphQL API.
They don't need to because the normies are profitable enough.
There's this 1979 model:
https://toweringskills.com/writing/ascendency-of-word-proces...

And this model 103: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/lanier-model-103-n...
Because the whole thing is about embedding images as text, so the interesting bit is not showing the image, but the resulting encoding in the racket source.
I think part of the delay is just that USB-C didn't really take off for cheap devices until like 2018.

Before that there was no connector that was suitable for a universal charger, we barely even knew if dynamic voltage negotiation was going to be safe or not(I remember thinking it was going to try devices with bugs).

MicroUSB was craptastic, barrel jacks aren't voltage standardized in practice, but pretty much every average consumer adores USB-C. It's like a shining example of what tech can be.

If you made a law requiring any other connector, people would probably be angry. We could probably learn to live with a barrel jack, but most likely wrong voltage connection accidents would have happened at least occasionally.
I'd be down to switch things up and join Cascadia as a BC resident. Though the US can keep Oregon...
Somebody convince me LLMs are not net-negative productivity.

They seem much better at producing bullshit that’s difficult to filter through, than performing actually useful work.
>mastodon.art is a safe space instance

So don't join them if you don't want to be coddled. Anyone who does wants to engage with a different slice of the fediverse, and why do you care if they don't see you?
Regulatory capture. Persuade governments that AI is so dangerous that it must be regulated, then help write those regulations to ensure no one else can follow you to the ladder.

That's half the point of OpenAI's game of pretending each new thing they make is too dangerous to release. It's half directed at investors to build hype, half at government officials to build fear.
One thing that makes my blood boil, and I've seen it in many countries I've lived in, is that people who vape tend to see it as being fine to vape e.g. on trains. Here in Germany people are vaping in the trains nonstop, and while it's not as bad as people dropping cigarette butts on the street (usually literally directly next to a bin!), it still makes it difficult to respect the group, given how shockingly common it is.
So EU homelessness is as bad as the US in some places, but the EU needs to be more like the US?
Almost all of these are either free or a marketplace (which is free to access). Only Windows is technically not free, but it comes free with the hardware you buy. And they came at a time when there was not a real competition. It's very hard to beat a free product.
> Nothing unproven about covid coming out of wuhan lab

The burden of proof lies on those making the claim of a lab origin. In scientific investigation, the party proposing a particular explanation must provide evidence to support it, rather than others having to disprove it.

> House panel concludes that COVID-19 pandemic came from a lab leak

The findings of this report are in dispute. There is still no definitive evidence that COVID-19 originated in a lab.

> Two-thirds of Americans believe that the COVID-19 virus originated from a lab in China

The number of people who believe something has no bearing on whether it's factually true. History is full of examples where the majority was wrong. People once widely believed the Earth was flat and the sun revolved around us. Scientific truth is determined by evidence and rigorous research, not popular opinion or consensus.
> the original intention of Lua (super small user-defined script for the masses).

Lua was originally intended to be a language/data format for a Brazilian oil company geology software.

https://www.lua.org/history.html
This is very funny. Let's take a different approach.

You are in a situation where you have a particular benefit. You may choose to share part of this benefit with another individual, who can be said to be deprived without it. This individual lacks the capacity to gain the benefit by their own means. Said individual shall be a permanent stranger: you will never again meet, your choice here being without future consequence as a result. Sharing your benefit diminishes it, but does not lose it.

What decision do you make?
Interesting viewpoint, however I don't think that would stop Israel in Lebanon (which has not been aligned with Egypt), and probably not in Gaza either.

It might have made Egypt more willing to open its border with Gaza, but could it really absorb 1-2 million refugees, as Jordan once did?
+1
It seem glaring that american as a tough time developping the potentional of people already here
They want us to stop meddling in what they claim to be their territory.

I can see why they want it. What I can't see is why they should expect us to give it to them.
No one had suggested LM Studio at this point in the thread.
I think we are paying too much attention to the political opening of China and not enough to the economic factors affecting the US Dollar at the time. We are right to blame Nixon, not for opening up China, but for closing the doors to Fort Knox with the Nixon Shock in ending US-Dollar gold convertability. This resulted in high inflation and a devaluing of the dollar via a floating exchange rate. This made US exports cheap (easier to export), but for other countries assets in dollars fell in exchange-value, and their exports became more expensive (harder to export). This happened at the same time as the OPEC crisis, so Carter was facing a failing economy with extreme inflation. And by appointing Volcker who hiked interest rates to stop the inflation, caused a recession and a permanent deindustrialization of the US as well as dozens of countries with US assets going bankrupt. We ended up embracing a deficit economy powered by financialization, but since countries like China had didn't have dollar assets, didn't face austerity measures and structural adjustment programs from the IMF, and were industrialized, they could take up all the lost manufacturing that the US was willing to lose in order to maintain global hegemony in other ways.
The promise of Opera Unite was that instead of sharing with someone on Facebook, or wherever, you could invite them to peer with you via your browser. You could share messages, share files, follow blog-type posts with everything p2p.

That seemed to me like it should have been the next evolution of the net, and still seems that way. All right there in your browser (which was also a server, it United those two groups of functions) democratising the internet...
We nerds are never going to beat the allegations, are we?
Don't forget the 3PM Saturday blackout in the UK where you can't watch any football matches on TV, even if you pay for Sky Sports/TNT/Amazon Prime...

... unless you have an IPTV subscription where you can stream all the games from a foreign TV channel with English commentary.

The idea with the blackout being that it encourages you go to physical games but Premiership games good luck getting tickets for those (even if you do they're extortionate) or go to local games which you might not be as interested in.
> if you can make a reasonable guess as to the total contained information about your topic within the given size of model

Can you expand a bit on how you might do this?
I think Mastodon and the Fediverse is better equipped for this kind of thing. The software itself acts like a "common carrier", and the networks formed by the instance operators align according to their politics. Truth Social itself is built on Mastodon.
My parents took my siblings and I as children to Manzanar, which has been kept close to its original state. The brutality sits with me. Swarms of mosquitos bit at our family, clouds of dust made it hard to keep eyes open. It was blazing hot, over 100º, so the dust hurt. Rows of squat, decrepit hovels stretched out across the desolate sand towards the mountains. You could see the desert through floors. Barbed wire fences, mounted guns on guard towers.

10,000 American citizens imprisoned in conditions worse than a zoo.
An algorithmic breakthrough IMHO. If someone finds out either how to get 10x performance per parameter or how to have a model actually model real causality (to some degree) they will have a moat.

Also, I suspect that the next breakthrough will be kept under wraps and no papers will be published explaining it.
> Future members can be forced.

Only if they changed the rules to make ERM II membership mandatory and automatic, or if they changed the Euro convergence criteria to remove the need for it. I've heard no talk they are planning to do so.

The non-Euro EU members have a say in the enlargement negotiation process too, and they don’t want new members to be forced into Euro adoption - it might weaken their own ability to resist that pressure in the future, plus additional non-Euro EU members are a potential source of new internal allies

> They won't become EU members, without a clear will to adopt the policies which lead to the Euro.

The government that negotiates to join the EU may do all they can to convince the EU that they want to join the Euro – they might even really mean it. Then, after accession, that government loses an election and get replaced by a new government which is anti-Euro. What can the EU do to stop that? Nothing.
I wonder what enabled the Inca to imagine all of these things, from bridges to quipos to an enormous empire - and then to develop the culture, the skills, the technologies, and forge the political support for the investment, all on large scales.

It's not just one person's idea at one time. It takes generations and a whole society. How do you even spread those ideas across such a wide area without literacy?
Doomed for open source projects perhaps but they are open to commercial licensing, Rebelle uses it.
| ragebait always wins. People like ragebait.

Sure but we don't need to help it along. People are gonna people, we shouldn't create machines that encourage the worst tendencies.

If Bluesky goes the advertising route (likely) they'll find just like everyone else that stoking fires is the best way to ensure engagement, which ensures eyeballs, which benefits advertisers.

My problem with ads is not the ads themselves, it's that the ads become the customer, and the users become the product being sold to the advertisers. This creates a series of perverse economic incentives that significantly shift the way the site is designed and developed.
One can argue that this is a consequence of EU punishing Britain for Brexit to scare other nations from exiting the EU. Which means that if Iceland joins, it will have hard time leaving the EU. If you need to punish members from leaving, it does not give a very good impression. Iceland is better of by deepening their trade agreements with the EU without joining as a full member.
Here in Oz the banning of disposable nicotine vapes has led to an increase in organised crime activity.

Schoolkids are getting the vapes without any problems.

Great idea, but poorly implemented. I'll be interested to see Belgium avoids the issues we're having here in Australia.
It used to be their high search quality, difficult to replicate technology. Now they don't have one.
> curious if anyone has ideas how an LLM provider could moat AI

By knowing a lot about me, like the details of my relationships, my interests, my work. The LLM would then be able to be better function than the other LLMs. OpenAI already made steps in that direction by learning facts about you.

By offering services only possible by integrating with other industries, like restaurants, banks, etc... This take years to do, and other companies will take years to catch up, especially if you setup exclusivity clauses. There's lots of ways to slow down your competitors when you are the first to do something.
Export all third-party drivers from a Windows image to a destination folder
True. But it’s easy to install Bash 5 via Homebrew or MacPorts.
What ever happened to Secure Scuttlebutt? That seemed like an interesting way to approach this, similar to Nostr perhaps?
The paraphrasing is very comical, but a bit different from what they actually said, which is more like "more than we had imagined".
Geez, where do I sign up?

Sounds great. Don't listen to the pseudo-realists who chase dreams of grandeur rather than doing something (at least semi-) useful or good with their lives.
That was the original definition.

I mean, that was from 100 years ago, and language does drift over time. Still, it's not an outlandish definition.
Why I gave up trying to delete myself from the internet
> I think dropping the 3.3v and -12v connections is a valid choice,

More than just a valid choice, in the long run even 5V is going to be dropped. Intel's ATX12VO standard has only 12V coming from the power supply, all other voltages are generated on the motherboard when necessary.
DeepSeek’s recent progress with V3 being a case in point which reportedly only cost $5.5M.
https://archive.ph/z2G0d
Much of what was written about us in 2008 was sensationalized, especially regarding us "jailing the bankers" and "rewriting the constitution"

A few middle managers took the fall for the actual top bankers and served at most a few months in a country club-esque open prison for non-violent offenders. There was a news item years ago about one getting upset for losing weekend privileges to get ice cream at a local shop.

Our new constitution was thrown out for not being created in an acceptable manner.

Regarding your last question, we did bring in outside investigators from the EU for parts of initial investigation / prosecution.

I'd recommend Sigrún Davíðsdóttir's blog (http://uti.is/) if you want more detailed coverage of what actually happened here.

She's done excellent work.

https://www.rna.is/eldri-nefndir/addragandi-og-orsakir-falls...
that was fake news.

He did very much dislike the alternative, though.
I assumed that they were storing the ULIDs as binary, in the UUID column type, as link 2 in your reply. If stored as TEXT, then yes, that absolutely would make a difference.

It’s also worth noting that unlike MySQL / SQL Server, Postgres does not store tuples clustered around the PK. Indices are of course still in a B+tree.
Oh wow, it's happening there! I've followed and starred and bookmarked and all that, and will be having a browse around a bit more closely when I get a moment. I think I'm roughly understanding what the group is about. I'll follow up, thanks!
Using the same currency without a common fiscal policy and resources is a disaster. It means currency and interests rates cannot be tuned to each country's economy. It means governments cannot borrow in their own currency (which is cheapest). There is a reason almost all countries have their own currency.

The hope was that the single currency would be soon followed by political union. Without this the Euro has been a disaster, leading to the European debt crisis, and painful austerity as the price of bailout.
> The centrist Dems always blame those further left, not themselves. They did it in 2016 and this year too.

well, unless there is an big untapped electorate even further left, that would make a lot of sense actually, wouldn't it?
Vaping is safer, but calling it a "life-saving habit" is a stretch.

Your logic is the same as "picking up a rattlesnake is OK because it's not as deadly as a taipan".
I don't remember "global cooling" but to be fair, I was only 10 by 1980.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling - OK but do bear in mind that fags (cigarettes) were still being advertised as good for your health in the '70s.

Global cooling/warming was not really a feared effect back then - both were merely noted. What really concentrated the mind was the Cold War for the mainstream minded. For the usual bat shit loopy mob, there was the usual alien invasions and that!

I was a UK soldier's brat (my mum was a soldier too when she met dad but "retired" on advice when they married). We spent quite a lot of time in West Germany. I remember seeing Tupolev Bears and Badgers getting "lost" and being given directions by large fireworks with pilots strapped on top with a couple of side winder missiles and a cannon that fires rounds that they might fly into themselves.

OK it was the '70's. Dad's staff car was a Sioux or a Merc. 432s and 434s, Chieftains, Stalwarts, Saracens, Saladins and the rest would rumble around - that was just UK gear. West Germany had Leopards, Luchs (Lynx) and more. Phantoms, Starfighters, Buccaneers, Harriers and all the rest. I remember watching flights of Phantoms (four) lift off from say RAF Wildenrath, put their foot down (afterburner) and scoot off to whatever they had to do. It was quite deafening, and I was in a playground!

"Global cooling" - no, no idea!

I hope I have given you a mild flavour of just how unimportant the environment was generally considered back in the day by the general public. There was quite a lot of other things going on.

Nowadays, the weather rather speaks for itself.
Thank you for the thoughtful answer. There is a certain amount of cynicism in my post, to match the cynicism of reality unfortunately. Your arguments may be valid, but who cares to rationally think and act when they can easily observe and react? A collapse akin to your description would disproportionately affect the people who don’t have the power to do either, they just accept and suffer. In history, do we have any example where that was not the case, except revolution? Even with revolutions the respite is only perceived and of the shuffle to reach the new decision structures.
I wanted to see if I could write a 1v1 maze runner game without typing a single complete line of code. Cursor+Clause+Redis+Auth0+Python+Flask+GCP
> It didn't fail.

It did. What came later, in the years after Yeltsin, is completely different than the communist regime of the USSR.

> much tougher set of adversaries.

It may seem so because of the media, but Russia is much weaker than the USSR is and has almost none of the global influence that the latter had.

China is now by far the more powerful adversary to the US, which went unnoticed for years because US foreign policy was so fixated on Russia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Idiots.
I found this opinion piece or carter (also from the post) compelling:
https://wapo.st/4gwS2JW

From the piece:

Carter helped restore trust in the presidency through ethics reforms more relevant today than ever before. He established the Senior Executive Service and insulated civil service workers against political pressure. He slowed the revolving door for departing officials and placed independent inspectors general in every department. The Office of Special Counsel originated with his legislation to investigate possible wrongdoing by high-level officials. And he extended ethical standards to the private sector through the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, barring corporations from bribing foreign officials to obtain contracts. With Walter Mondale, he created the modern vice presidency as a fully engaged partnership.

That and his campaign slogan to not lie to people really highlighted his integrity.
Has there been any serious study of exactly how LLMs store and retrieve memorized sequences? There are so many interesting basic questions here.

Does verbatim completion of a bible passage look different from generation of a novel sequence in interesting ways? How many sequences of this length do they memorize? Do the memorized ones roughly correspond to things humans would find important enough to memorize, or do LLMs memorize just as much SEO garbage as they do bible passages?
> China would still pose a problem

Not if regulation prohibits LLMs from China, which isn't that far fetched to be honest.

I think LLM will turn into a commodity product and if you want to dominate with a commodity product, you need to provide twice the value at half the cost. Open AI will need a breakthrough in reliability and/or inference cost to really create a moat.
SDI had very little to do with it.

The defeat was economic, not military.
Can I ask what your direct email is. I have already sent my application, but I don't have any respond back.
One view is that it’s not first mover, but first arriver advantage. Whoever gets to AgI (the fabled city of gold or silver?, Ag pun intended) will achieve exponential gains from that point forward, and that serves as the moat in the limit. So you can think of it as buying a delayed moat, with an option price equivalent to the investment required until you get to that point in time. Either you believe in that view or you don’t. It’s more of an emotional / philosophical investment thesis, with a low probability of occurrence, but with a massive expected value.Meanwhile, consumers and the world benefit.